NASA’s Pleiades supercomputer has provided fresh insights into the Oort cloud – ​​a vast, theoretical spherical shell of icy ...

The mysterious Oort cloud is the source of many of our solar system's comets, but astronomers still have no idea what it ...

Researchers claim that there could be at least 1 million interstellar objects hiding in the Oort Cloud at the edge of our ...

Sure, they’re particles and rocks, but they’re still a fascinatingly long way from home. Alpha Centauri is the star system ...

Aimed at the nearby star PDS 70, the James Webb Space Telescope is watching newborn planets take shape before our eyes in ...

Several Cowboy State Daily readers wrote in to talk about their experiences with solar panels after a Happy Valley family ...

Simulations showed that over 10 lakh macroscopic objects, each wider than 100 metres were moving surreptitiously outside our ...

Researchers are examining how artificial intelligence technologies could support a planned Chinese mission to the boundaries of the solar system, according to a new paper. Artificial ...

Researchers expect similar sodium salts to be found on the dwarf planet Ceres, in water plumes from Saturn's Enceladus, and ...

Jan. 15, 2025 — New observational data and simulation models have confirmed a new type of planet unlike anything found in the Solar System. This provides another piece of the puzzle to ...

For the first time, astronomers have imaged dozens of belts around nearby stars where comets and tiny pebbles within them are ...

Harvard and Smithsonian (CfA), and its Submillimeter Array (SMA), were critical for identifying a cache of belts surrounding other stars beyond the sun where comets may reside. Regions around 74 stars ...